yeah, I've read alot about arch, is it lightweight too or is it resource heavy? I've been toying with Damn Small Linux alot lately, I'm kinda lovin it. I've never been a big fan of fluxbox, I'd rather see xfce, but fluxbox is alot smaller.
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I use Arch Linux. That, of course, is one that no one has talked about<br>yet. That's probably because it's basically Gentoo without the<br>compiling. It's not exactly a super user friendly version of linux. You<br>are supposed to install it via a minimal install and then use it's
<br>custom package tool (pacman) to get everything you need. Most all of the<br>display managers are available (KDE, Gnome, Fluxbox, etc).<br><br>And actually, you only get away from compiling if you want things that<br>are in the official package tree. Theres a user package tree that people
<br>can add to that basically encapsulates a source tgz with a description<br>of how to compile it in arch (sort of like what gentoo does). I think<br>Arch is a good compromise between gentoo and the more friendly versions
<br>of linux. You still need quite a bit of linux knowledge to use it<br>because it makes few attempts to hold your hand but it's very<br>configurable, fast, and not as annoying as gentoo (having to compile<br>absolutely everything gets old fast.)
<br><br>If you get the chance I'd recommend trying something like Arch or<br>gentoo, at least for education's sake. ;-) It really teaches you to<br>figure out where configuration files are kept and how to hand edit them.<br>
That comes in handy for running servers where the general rule is 'thou<br>shalt not run KDE or Gnome.'<br><br>Shawn McCuan wrote:<br>> What is it that you didn't like about Linspire? (other than the UI -<br>> keep in mind it is just KDE...so, the theme can be changed....lol)
<br>><br>> IMHO, I think that Xandros is really attempting to be a Windows 2000<br>> clone...so, no go for me there...and its just plain slow.<br>><br>> I use openSuse as my primary distro :) And I frequently "toy" with
<br>> Gentoo...I can do stage3 installations w/o a problem, but, I still cant<br>> quite get a stage1or stage2 to work...lol...<br>><br>><br>> Jordan Hudson wrote:<br>><br>>> linspire was worse than Xandros, so I probably wont use freespire,
<br>>> they just look to windows-esque for me. Xandros was the biggest pain ever.<br>>><br>>> On 5/15/06, *Shawn McCuan * <<a href="mailto:metiosarius@linspirenetwork.com">metiosarius@linspirenetwork.com
</a><br>>> <mailto:<a href="mailto:metiosarius@linspirenetwork.com">metiosarius@linspirenetwork.com</a>>> wrote:<br>>><br>>> Hey,<br>>><br>>> I was just wondering what you guys have thought of the recent Suse
<br>>> Linux<br>>> 10.1 release (which I really like - I have been a long time SuSE<br>>> user -<br>>> Yast is awesome...even though SuSE uses *cough*rpm*cough* instead<br>>> of the
<br>>> superior *deb package management system) (<a href="http://www.opensuse.org">http://www.opensuse.org</a>)<br>>><br>>> I am a little irritated that SuSE dropped support for RaLink WLAN<br>>> cards
<br>>> though...even though I have found a way to get it working by<br>>> installing<br>>> the manufacturers drivers...They are supposed to be releasing an<br>>> "official" patch sometime in the future for this...
<br>>><br>>> Also, what do you guys think about the Freespire project?<br>>> ( <a href="http://www.freespire.org">http://www.freespire.org</a>)<br>>><br>>> Thanks!<br>>><br>
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